More than anything, I think I just really want to like One Thing. I want to enjoy One Game so much that I can do a lot of it without getting tired or bored or apathetic or frustrated - like how YuGiOh was early last year! I want to share a real and honest interest in something consecutively with all of my little ones and always have something like that to go back to (but also one that people want to engage with).
It feels, I suppose, difficult in my old age to enjoy something so deeply and genuinely that I can fend off burnout or disinterest in its building block mechanics after spending enough time with it ... and yet, alas, if I fixed that, I would risk alienating the ghoulings that don’t find their interest align with a single type of fixed content. How we do it now - a new game as often as I can so much as whim to have one, pulling my community behind me in a little cart to every hectic & haphazard new interest as if the magic school bus was possessed by a demonic entity whose only concern is to infernally satiate its need for instant gratification in gaming - is the only real solution to both a Cool Witch Syndromed Mind and the need for content to remain appealing, fresh, exciting.
‘Tis not a great deal of woe, but I reflect on it as we go through our current fighting game gauntlet, when SF6 failed - not of its own merit, but of mine - to become the cornerstone I had wanted of it. Not that I’ve lost all interest in the game or we won’t re-approach it after a short cooldown to reevaluate what it is, exactly, I’m looking for from the genre - but woe nonetheless, a melancholic pall of hands laid over my lap as I think deeply on what I can do - what I can make - what we, collectively, would want to see, and what would be the most satisfying of that.
That said, we’re great! We’re doing great. We have some slower days, we have some faster days, we’re largely comfortable and not in a spot of so much as doom. I wish only to be here at your sides. Thank you always for having me. To the world’s revolution and its brighter dawns. And so it goes, and so it goes.
